War/Peace - Part II. Clarissa Daisy Huntsman
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Korean concentration camp. So we've taken that name and appropriated it to "Jupiter". Only recently actually; I met a girl who studied Physics at the University of Utah about a month ago. Robyn. She told me about how they believe the small and large planets form [2.]. And here at Jupiter we believe that we're living on a large planet, far less common than the smaller ones. Wet feelings are always dancing around us like particles of fairy dust, planetesimals. Feelings we have for people we encounter. For smaller planets - you can call them super-earths but we'll call them monogamous people - these feelings move far too fast and are to hard to keep a hold of. Hence people will take only what they feel for a single person into their heart and place value only on these specific feelings; a fraction of those that exist in the surrounding space. So this couple becomes like a small planet, or an island almost like Hugh Grant's character in About A Boy [3.]. Polygamists - namely us - will seek out all the good feelings we can possibly accrue so that we can become something much larger, much nicer, and much more inclusive.
SAMANTHA
You seem like someone very open to experience [4.] [5.] [8.], Matt. Someone eager to try new things. Ha. I knew it. First time I saw you at the Star, first time I pulled you into my orbit and we got to chatting.
CLARISSA
Now, sort of like Scientologists [6.], we offer you a family, an orbit, a loving social network beyond even the likes of Facebook. But unlike the pathetic and greedy Scientologists [6.] we don't charge you a cent. With the help of Jaxon you can obtain a temporary but legal marriage licence. But in our hearts we will always be together, longer than the law will allow.
JAXON
Matt, do you take Clarissa - as the Hive's representative - to be your lawfully wedded wife?
MATT
Yes. Yes, I do.
JAXON
Clarissa and Samantha, do you each accept Matt into your family and take him to be Clarissa's lawfully wedded husband?
CLARISSA AND SAMANTHA GIGGLE. THEY LOOK INTO EACH OTHER EYES AND THEN INTO MATT'S.
CLARISSA/SAMANTHA
We do.
JAXON
By the power vested in me by the State I now pronounce you - Matt - an official member of Honeybee Hive and husband of Clarissa. You may kiss the brides.
JAXON BLOWS A WHISTLE - THE DOLPHIN'S SIGNATURE WHISTLE THAT PROMOTES GROUP COHESION [7.] [8.] AND RIGHT NOW GRANTS MATT GROUP MEMBERSHIP. AND THE THREE STAR-CROSSED LOVERS NOW KISS.
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- Stamina - Cassie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJcmNLlg8c&feature=related)
- The Dolphin's Cry - Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Wx91yz9fA)
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[5.] Feltz, A., & Cokely, E. T. (2008). ["Participants could respond that either one of the participants in the debate was right, or they could respond that neither one was right because there is no fact of the matter. Those who responded that one of the two people in the debate was right were coded as objectivists, and those who responded that neither party to the debate was right were coded as nonobjectivists. . . . Our primary concern was if stable individual differences accounted, at least in part, for these responses. They did. Those who scored high in openness to experience were much more likely to respond as non-objectivists to both Moral and World."]. The fragmented folk: More evidence of stable individual differences in moral judgments and folk intuitions. In B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1771-1776). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved March 1, 2012 from http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en...
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INT. HONEYBEE HIVE - GROUND - DAY
(CLARISSA, SAMANTHA, MATT, COP 1, COP 2)
THE TWO COPS HAVE RETURNED TO HONEYBEE HIVE. CLARISSA'S SHOWING THEM AROUND THE PLACE, AND US ALSO. CLARISSA OPENS A DRAWER OPPOSITE THE COMPUTERS.
CLARISSA
Ordered by date.
CLARISSA REMOVES SOME PAPERS FROM THE DRAWER.
CLARISSA
This I filed only this morning. It's how we keep things as legal as possible. This morning Matt and I were legally wed. These are the papers to prove it. In a few days we'll file for a divorce. Then I'll get hitched to someone else, and Matt also.
COP 2
Is that right, Matt?
MATT
Yep. That's how it works. I'm cool with it.
CLARISSA
We have filing cabinets on a floor below where we keep records of all the marriages and divorces that have taken place here at Honeybee. Mainly because we can. In a strange way the piles of documents symbolize the messiness of monogamy [1.], if you know what I mean. Half of all marriages end in divorce [1.].
SAMANTHA
Incidentally, half of all coin tosses end in tails.
CLARISSA
Right. And here, we don't like to gamble. Simple as that. We prefer rationality. Just show me the science in support of monogamy. It's hard to find.
CLARISSA SHRUGS. SHE PUTS THE PAPERS BACK.
CLARISSA
And that's because we like to assume the science is sound. We love to think that we only need a single soulmate and that this soulmate will be perfect, that nothing could possibly come between two lovers, just like how teens who drink and drive think they're invincible. But here at Honeybee we don't gamble. You know, people who get married aren't even gambling; they're putting all their cash down on heads after the coin has landed tails up. It's inevitable; people will get bored, we eventually wanna do different things, explore new places, meet and become intimate with new people. Either that or we become habituated to our mates, our environment . .